Mouths Quotes - Page 33

• A string of bright white buildinh, glistening like teeth over the slurping mouth of the ocean.

  Lauren Oliver

  Ocean, White, Teeth

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• Up on the roof Tatiana thought about the evening minute, the minute she used to walk out the factory doors, turn her head to the left even before her body turned, and look for his face. The evening minute as she hurried down the street, her happiness curling her mouth upward to the white sky, the red wings speeding her to him, to look up at him and smile.

  Paullina Simons

  White, Doors, Sky

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• He made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound, tongue coaxing blood from the wound. He pressed his body the length of mine, one hand cupping my turned head, the other playing down the line of my body. Maybe it was just blood, but I never stroked my steak while eating it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Blood, Hands, Body

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.476, Penguin

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• His voice was soft and sweet as molasses; but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mother, Sweet, Thinking

  Patricia Briggs (2006). “Moon Called”, p.88, Penguin

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• Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Together, Pieces, Cases

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.530, Penguin

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• All Mattia saw was a shadow moving toward him. He instinctively closed his eyes and then felt Alice’s hot mouth on his, her tears on his cheek, or maybe they weren’t hers, and finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

  Paolo Giordano

  Moving, Eye, Light

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• If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring humans, and from the same mouth you started devouring humans, you cried out to me 'I love you,' would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do today?

  Tite Kubo

  Love You, Snakes, Bleach

  "Fictional character: Gin Ichimaru". Anime series "Bleach" ("Goodbye... Rangiku", 2011), 2004-2012.

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• To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

  Voltaire

  Beauty, Eye, Yellow

  "Voltaire's Alphabet of wit".

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• There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go as curly as corkscrews and foam at the mouth, whenever they hear the words 'I devise and bequeath.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  People, Ordinary, Foam

  DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1963). “STRONG POISON”

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• Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Pain, Eye, Ears

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.136, Macmillan

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• When she comes She pulls you close She breathes in short bursts Her eyes close Her head tilts back Her mouth opens slightly Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt She is perfect And you feel like you are everything.

  Henry Rollins

  Eye, Perfect, Steel

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.29, Villard

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• Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

  Aberjhani

  Names, Fire, Heaven

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• Your mother sets you up blind dates? With guys like that?" The corners of his mouth twitched. "She doesn't like you very much, does she?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mother, Guy, Doe

  Kelley Armstrong (2016). “Otherworld Chills”, p.121, Penguin

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• Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dirty, Blessed, Acceptance

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• Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Clever, Keeping Your Mouth Shut, Half

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.615, Penguin

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• She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with a nervous toss of her hair, and then again come darkly near and let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward first the scepter of my passion.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Pain, Passion, Heart

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• I had a dream this morning too, and you were in it," he said. "I don't remember what it was about, exactly, but when I woke up I looked at the clock and it was exactly six thirty-two." I felt an eerie tingle all down my back and froze with my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Really?" He smirked and popped the cookie into his mouth. "No

  Kate Brian

  Dream, Morning, Eerie

  Kate Brian (2013). “The Complete Private Collection: Private; Invitation Only; Untouchable; Confessions; Inner Circle; Legacy; Ambition; Revelation; Last Christmas; Paradise Lost; Suspicion; Scandal; Vanished; The Book of Spells; Ominous; Vengeance”, p.2951, Simon and Schuster

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• Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue,with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree.

  Pablo Neruda

  Men, Shoes, Feet

  Pablo Neruda, “Nothing But Death”

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• The smile he gave her was wistful, just a little lift to his mouth. "You are a fighter." ""Yes. Always. And sometimes I'm a whole army.

  J.R. Ward

  Army, Littles, Fighter

  J. R. Ward (2015). “The Story of Son: A Dark Vampire Romance”, p.43, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us, to put our mouths in the dust, if so be there may be hope -- here is fortitude indeed.

  F.B. Meyer

  Strong, Dust, Silence

  F.B. Meyer (2002). “Paul: A Servant of Jesus Christ”, p.40, CLC Publications

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• Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to smoke in this "French-inhale" style. Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed.

  J. D. Salinger

  Men, Enormous Quantities, Style

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

  Charles Portis

  Thinking

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.175, A&C Black

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• Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wine, Eye, Glasses

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• Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.

  Mother Teresa

  Long, Laughing, Tone

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• Those deep hazel eyes held his and didn't blink. "You'd be amazed what I would do to keep you alive." Abruptly, V's mouth opened, his breath growing tight. And as the two of them stood chest-to-chest, he knew every inch of his body, felt it all at once.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Two, Alive

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